The second-generation Volkswagen Golf (also known as the Type 19E until the 1991 model year, or Typ 1G thereafter) was launched in Europe at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 1983. It debuted in 1984 in the UK, and it was introduced as a 1985 model in the US. In 1985, British motoring magazine What Car? awarded the Golf Mk2 1985 "Car of the Year".